tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68669092024-03-05T02:25:03.038-06:00TechRamble.net<p>Technology analysis of the latest gadgets, consoles, and computer architectures.</p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844508371644726364noreply@blogger.comBlogger117125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866909.post-71993717972663835762016-02-09T14:20:00.001-06:002016-02-09T14:20:20.992-06:00Breaking up iTunesInspired when listening to Ctrl-Walt-Delete podcast titled "Walt and Nilay worry about Apple", I decided to speculate on a future without iTunes, and as a result, OS X. Before I dive into this, I must disclose that, as of October 2014, I own an iPhone 6 Plus, an iPad 3, a retina Macbook Pro, an iPod Touch 4, and a 2006 Macbook Pro. This transition into the iTunes ecosystem took place over 10 Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844508371644726364noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866909.post-31245404421259544232015-11-17T12:40:00.000-06:002015-11-17T12:40:06.657-06:00The Alphabet of GoogleGoogle no longer goes under the mantra "Don't be Evil". The new slogan is "Do the Right Thing" and its new parent, Alphabet, incorporates Google, Nest, Fiber, Ventures, Calico and Capital into a modern corporate structure that allows for many sub-corporations or LLCs under one umbrella, limiting the risk of a sub-corporation causing the entire company to fail.
To decode the Alphabet of the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844508371644726364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866909.post-72666155486153706552013-01-27T15:21:00.001-06:002013-01-27T15:36:56.414-06:00Galaxy Note 2: Smooth as ButterRapid development in the smartphone space can be summed up with a single observation. It took the AMD Athlon 6 years to move from single to dual cores, followed 2 years later with quad cores; in comparison, ARM SOCs moved from single to dual to quad cores in 2 years time.
The phone comfortably sitting in my pocket packs a quad-core SOC clocked at 1.6GHz with 2GB of RAM. This is mind-boggling Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844508371644726364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866909.post-84049842030981705742012-08-26T20:12:00.003-05:002012-08-26T20:12:59.554-05:00RIM Should Make an Android Phone with AmazonThe clock is ticking for RIM, and although they still have money in the bank, the postponed release of Blackberry OS 10 into 2013 does not bode well for the platform. The Blackberry Playbook provides a development platform for applications that could run on Blackberry v10 phones, but with Microsoft contending in the phone and tablet market with Windows 8, it will be difficult for developers to Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844508371644726364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866909.post-30812015654333979272012-05-21T19:51:00.000-05:002012-05-21T19:51:35.559-05:00Koss Striva Pro on WebOS LinuxBluetooth is ubiquitous and works well with WebOS, so why would I want to stream using WiFi headphones? That is the question I might expect a common reader to have, and my response is simple: WiFi is everywhere. The Internet is the modern delivery mechanism for music; this has been established with iTunes, Amazon, Pandora, and Spotify at the forefront. If music is arriving from the Internet, Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844508371644726364noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866909.post-89918940986121469042012-02-14T08:39:00.001-06:002012-02-14T08:41:45.985-06:00iPad 3 Conspiracy Theory Glenn Beck StyleAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844508371644726364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866909.post-57996229186491365052011-11-27T14:06:00.004-06:002011-11-27T17:21:12.504-06:00A[mazon][dobe]'s Future Application Platform: WebOS, Codename EnyoWe have now reached the point of no return: after returning to its parent company 3com/HP, the original Palm hardware group has been assimilated and Palm is no more. They were given one final run, producing the TouchPad in under 1 year and providing the Pre line with hardware it deserved with the Veer and Pre^3; however, it was too little, too late. Ultimately, what HP did was keep Palm alive Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844508371644726364noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866909.post-61138610920656830742011-08-28T21:54:00.002-05:002011-08-28T22:04:04.160-05:00This is My Next's Joshua Topolsky Called the HP TouchPad FiresaleI was just going to post this as an update to my previous post, but this is too good to bury. In the process of catching up on tech podcasts on my drive back home this evening, I started listening to the "this is my next podcast" from 8/12/2011 and realized that Joshua Topolsky called the $99 TouchPad a week before it happened. Now this could imply that HP took a cue from This is my Next to Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844508371644726364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866909.post-2600690135745199972011-08-22T20:35:00.004-05:002011-08-23T00:25:50.309-05:00WebOS: The Platform That Still CanIt was only two months ago when I placed my pre-order for the HP TouchPad. A part of me wanted to wait until I had a chance to demo the TouchPad in a brick-and-mortar, but the opportunity to have the TouchPad in my hands before my trip to Minneapolis the weekend of the 4th was too much for me to resist. Today I find myself $450 richer, as HP's instructions to credit early buyers finally made Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844508371644726364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866909.post-56468256633248778972011-02-28T16:13:00.002-06:002011-02-28T19:57:55.767-06:00Computing Titans of Today (Part 2)Given the four modern technology driving forces outlined in Part 1, I will take this opportunity to study the approaches taken by each of the four titans to increase revenue and maintain high profit margins. Whenever one of these companies succeeds in garnering interest in a technology evolution, nearly every competitor and supplier stands to benefit.Apple - A company with a well-recognized Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844508371644726364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866909.post-53760341583230643132011-02-24T17:07:00.002-06:002011-02-24T17:10:10.972-06:00Joshua Topolsky Late Night Motorola and HPalm DemoCheck out the Motorola Atrix with netbook dock, Motorola Xoom, and very well executed Palm Veer, Pre^3, and TouchPad / Touch to Share demos below.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844508371644726364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866909.post-69854006353699995462011-02-12T14:23:00.005-06:002011-02-12T21:02:47.465-06:00Palm WebOS 3.0 vs. Google Android 3.0 (HoneyComb) and User Interfaces [Updated]Now that WebOS 3.0 for the Palm TouchPad has been announced and a more extensive demo of Android 3.0 was shown, it is time to evaluate these tablet UIs and the advantages and disadvantages to each approach.Before we begin, let's review the classic UI approaches of Microsoft in Windows and Apple in Mac OS (X and iOS). The original Apple Mac UI (circa 1984) only supported running one application Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844508371644726364noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866909.post-17435554495120696832011-02-07T16:31:00.002-06:002011-02-07T16:47:26.770-06:00Motorola AtrixThis Android phone has sparked my interest due to one notable feature: webtop mode. This would be a great feature to use as a developer and a multitasker, and although it does not function nearly as well on the latter as WebOS might on a tablet or netbook, it provides a great environment for exploring and using Android apps and browsing the web when you require something more than a Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844508371644726364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866909.post-69509523290446024032011-01-18T23:58:00.001-06:002011-01-19T00:01:21.299-06:00PalmPad Render9" and 7" expected...i'll take one of the former!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844508371644726364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866909.post-11345694840651032222011-01-08T13:14:00.002-06:002011-01-08T14:53:44.393-06:00Upcoming Palm Tablet PredictionsAnticipation for the WebOS tablet almost overshadows Computing Titans of Today (Part 2) [no worries, that blog posting will arrive soon ;-) ]. However, with CES 2011 coming to an end and HP Palm finally scheduling a WebOS event February 9, the moment is ripe for Palm tablet predictions. To preface, let's start with a quick overview of WebOS 2.0.WebOS 2.0 brings enhancements to universal search,Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844508371644726364noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866909.post-39564104304755730302010-10-07T21:03:00.005-05:002010-10-07T23:02:42.196-05:00Computing Titans of Today (Part 1)There are many computer technology companies that can be considered innovators and market drivers both in the past and even into the present, but there are only a notable few who really stand out and simultaneously frighten and inspire both their counterparts and their customers. It is interesting to note that these companies overlap so much that for all intensive purposes they are competitors, Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844508371644726364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866909.post-72671900147118114482010-04-12T20:50:00.003-05:002010-04-12T21:43:26.314-05:00Palm Revenue PossibilitiesA lot has changed since I last posted about a possible Palm and Nokia Union. Nokia has partnered with Intel and merged Moblin with Maemo to create Meego. Palm launched the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus on Verizon but flopped with the launch, thus resulting in an awesome deal for Verizon subscribers (free Mobile Hot Spot!). Apple released the iPad and iPhone OS 4.0, addressing multitasking in a Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844508371644726364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866909.post-16509222414213976252010-02-17T12:36:00.004-06:002010-02-17T22:44:39.334-06:00U.S. Smartphone Adoption is Being Held Back by Wireless Carriers...YEAH I SAID IT!It is amazing how much smartphones have grown in popularity in the last few years. The mobile market took much longer to mature than the general computing market. It took a licensable advanced and continually evolving computer architecture (ARM), shrinking process technology, dense memory capacities (both in solid-state and RAM), and optimization of open-source operating systems (Darwin and Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844508371644726364noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866909.post-63192622895155566002009-12-06T23:21:00.002-06:002009-12-06T23:28:32.455-06:00Resurrecting PublicationsAs I was flipping through the past week of tech news in Google Reader, I stumbled upon a Time Inc. Magazine Tablet demo and my jaw dropped. Although I wouldn't necessarily pick up a Sports Illustrated, even in digital form, the live cover page, photo flipping, ease and speed of navigation, and multimedia throughout the magazine makes it a very compelling device. Just the way that the engineers Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844508371644726364noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866909.post-58494261019572388212009-10-31T17:01:00.002-05:002009-10-31T17:19:08.157-05:00Nintendo Should Apply a Tick-Tock Strategy to Gaming Consoles (thanks @Engadget for the inspiration)I was listening to Engadget Podcast 169 and they started talking about Nintendo releasing the DSi LL, a slightly larger DSi. They (as well as others) have speculated that it is really for the older generation; given the success of Brain Age and the existence of a Japanese dictionary and other educational and productivity apps, it makes sense to release a slightly larger version to appeal to a Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844508371644726364noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866909.post-35677877815013086172009-10-28T16:28:00.005-05:002009-10-28T23:17:05.278-05:00The Synergies of a Palm and Nokia UnionFirst, my disclaimer: I do not typically support mergers as I fear they tend to reduce options and opportunities in the computing market. However, Palm doesn't have many platforms to support their business; Motorola still has the Telecom component and other computing devices, Apple has computers and notebooks, and Nokia has telecom and services (and apparently a great deal of relevant mobile Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844508371644726364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866909.post-30988879092300794562009-10-26T23:42:00.002-05:002009-10-27T00:08:39.305-05:00Palm WebOS Should Support Facebook Open Platform and OpenSocial APIsThis seems so obvious that I held off posting about it until today, but it bothers me. Granted, I've already run out of space for apps on my Palm Pre (hopefully they either expand /var or create a container for apps on the FAT partition, or maybe I'll give in and do it myself), and i'm not a big user of Facebook apps (aside from Go, most of the apps I do have are for syncing information), but Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844508371644726364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866909.post-76510121250646356632009-10-17T21:18:00.003-05:002009-10-17T21:46:13.282-05:00The Sense Experience Running on AndroidI decided to take a look at a review of the HTC Hero on Engadget to get an idea of what innovations HTC has implemented on top of Android to improve the overall experience of using the device. This review is a bit dated, but given that the Hero is now being offered on Sprint I figured it was somewhat relevant.I have played around with the Google Dev Phone (i.e. the HTC T-Mobile G1), and I also Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844508371644726364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866909.post-22390636691145375762009-09-19T18:55:00.002-05:002009-09-19T19:48:16.486-05:00Motorola CLIQ: "Everything was a blur...""It sounds like a night of drunkin'...you know...'I don't know what happened...I sent a text message, I got an email, I added a new contact...I woke up in a gutter'...Moto Blur!" I think Joshua Topolsky (Engadget Correspondent) got it down when he covered it during The Engadget Show - 001.While WebOS on the Palm Pre provides a mechanism to receive notifications and integrate your online accountsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844508371644726364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866909.post-15428360146871872612009-09-19T08:32:00.001-05:002009-09-19T08:34:39.363-05:00Engadget Show 001 with Palm CEO Jon RubinsteinAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844508371644726364noreply@blogger.com0